1-19-12 (4th class)

I'm a little late posting this blog, but oh well.  As I recall, the professor talked about having to shift gears because he teaches 3 classes, and each classes are different.  Ok, not so different then perhaps a student taking several classes, very understandable.  This class in particular seemed to be about team work and evaluation.  Without context, we were supposed to evaluate everyone’s comics (the homework assignment) and rank them from best to worst by ourselves.  This was a mixed bag, as we seemed to get the system to work, till it broke down at the last second.  There was a lot of room for improvement, but you could only tell them from hindsight, as I said, everything started without context.  Going from anarchy to efficiently ranking 26 pieces of art wasn’t all together that bad.  Sure there were problems, like say only the confrontational people were heard (like me).  The entire time we were rating, no one really got any feedback or constructive criticism, and we botched the decision on who got first place.  I suppose we did learn about what to look for in art, such as the idea, the presentation, the clarity, storyline or the just the amount of effort put into it.  Though, I thought the colored comics were overrated.